Whether related or not, Morocco just caved, according to multiplesources, incl. Reuters, which has POLISARIO jumping on cue into the spotlight:

“Effectively everything has been resolved, according to our information,” said Ibrahim Ghali, the POLISARIO ambassador to Algeria, where the movement has its HQ. “A plane is at Lanzarote airport awaiting instructions,” he told Reuters.

Guess we’ll have to wait and see if this turns out to be true: recall that an earlier attempt to fly her back ended when Morocco changed its mind and refused landing permission. Fassi Fihri recently met with Ban Ki-moon, so they might want to put a UN stamp on her return, to help Rabat save face internally. Not that it will look good for the government anyway, but they really got themselves into that dead end. M6 should consider expelling some of his media advisors instead.

Also, pour les French speakers, Ibn Kafka has a series of interesting posts (1, 2, 3) discussing the legality of the expulsion and nationality issue, from an anti-independence but pro-rule-of-law Moroccan standpoint.

The only evil doers are those when backed by foreign interests want to split this country. We have seen so many of them throught out the history of Morocco, they have failed and so will the present day ones.

One can say what he wishes but history is written and no amount of money will ever change it.. As the makhzen Keep spending the money for favor around the world to grease it’s “allies” ,it is taking away from it’s people ..maybe it is needed for the education of it’s people or to combat the abject poverty . No country has ever tried to split Marocco or claimed any of it’s territory … Well maybe one and so you don’t get confused or you may not read history books I will tell which : Spain…and the rest is history ..for more let me know I will enlighten you as you seem to need it.

The police cordon of dozens of agents around the home of Aminatou Haidar is not the only “security belt” these days imposed by the Moroccan authorities in El Ayun.

The tactic of frightening the Saharawis who open the doors of their houses to foreigners has become increasingly fashionable in the capital of Western Sahara. The modus operandi is as follows. Minutes after the reporters access the house, the officials from the Ministry of Interior, who follow them 24 hours a day, knock on the door. They do not carry guns, at least not visibly, but are armed with threats and refer to laws that do not exist to expell the reporters from these houses of people who supposedly do not embrace the thesis of Rabat in the Saharawi conflict.

With a half smile, they make it clear to the owners of the house that they must face the consequences. Some of them are old aquentances from years of interrogations and torture in various units of El Ayun, some of the activists who know them explain.

On Sunday morning, this correspondent was with two other journalists in the house of Hammad Hmad in the neighborhood of Hay Villas. It did not take them long to appear, at least half a dozen of them were posted outside the home. “You need permission to be in this house,” says one of them standing by the door to this correspondent. He’s tall, stocky, wearing a long black coat and sunglasses. The residence permit (in Morocco, of course) is of no use here, nor is the accreditation from the Ministry of Communication (Moroccan) or the word of officials (Moroccans) that we can work without problems in the city.

In order not to put Hammad’s family in danger we leave with our work unfinished. The activist, more than two meters tall and over a hundred kilos heavy, watches helplessly, thinking more about what may happen to his mother or his sisters than of the expression of satisfaction on the faces of the policemen for work well done.

“This city remains a big prison. We left a small prison (he says referring to the local prison, which he has visited several times) and they put us in a larger one, El Ayun”, declares Hammad.